From d3444961eec5b7453026985b956c6b216d038a47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mkocustos <github.com@koester-familie.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:40:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: empty fs_uuid on multi-device Btrfs (#440)

On a multi-device Btrfs filesystem `grub-probe --target=device /` prints
one device per line (e.g. /dev/vda3 and /dev/vdb). The whole multi-line
result was then passed to `grub-probe --device "${root_device}"
--target=fs_uuid`, which cannot handle several devices at once and
returns an empty string. The blkid fallback fails for the same reason,
so grub-btrfs aborts with "Cannot determine UUID".

Pipe the device probe through `head -n1` and keep only the first member
device. Every member of a Btrfs pool reports the same pool-wide fs UUID,
so the first device is sufficient. For single-device setups `head -n1`
is a no-op, so existing configurations are unaffected.

The same one-line-per-device behaviour applies to a /boot that lives on
a multi-device Btrfs, so the identical guard is added to boot_device.

Closes #412
Refs #425
---
 41_snapshots-btrfs | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/41_snapshots-btrfs b/41_snapshots-btrfs
index f7d2bd6..20e7baa 100755
--- a/41_snapshots-btrfs
+++ b/41_snapshots-btrfs
@@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ fi
 # -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 # ---------- Root partition ----------
-root_device="$(${grub_probe} --target=device /)"           # e.g. /dev/mapper/enc
+# head -n1: on a multi-device Btrfs, grub-probe prints one device per line.
+# Passing all of them to --device makes the fs_uuid probe return empty, so
+# keep only the first device (any member yields the pool-wide fs UUID).
+root_device="$(${grub_probe} --target=device / | head -n1)"           # e.g. /dev/mapper/enc
 root_uuid="$(${grub_probe} --device "${root_device}" --target=fs_uuid 2>/dev/null)" || true
 
 # Fallback when grub-probe fails (encrypted container, detached header…)
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ root_uuid_subvolume="$(btrfs subvolume show / 2>/dev/null | \
 [ -z "$root_uuid_subvolume" ] && print_error "UUID of the root subvolume is not available"
 
 # ---------- Boot partition ----------
-boot_device="$(${grub_probe} --target=device "${boot_directory}")"   # e.g. /dev/sdb1
+boot_device="$(${grub_probe} --target=device "${boot_directory}" | head -n1)"   # e.g. /dev/sdb1; head -n1: see root_device above (multi-device Btrfs)
 boot_uuid="$(${grub_probe} --device "${boot_device}" --target=fs_uuid 2>/dev/null)" || true
 
 # Fallback for boot UUID